Elizabeth Hand’s Curious Toys

Celebrated novelists John Crowley and Elizabeth Hand discuss Hand’s new novel and the ways that historical fiction can and cannot answer our questions about the past.

The Look of Disaster

Comic books can document the horrors of war better than photos.

An America That Never Was: Norman Rockwell’s Vision

American Mirror, the new biography of Norman Rockwell.

Femininjas

Women in Fiction Fight Back

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